Apple introduced the multi-desktop management tool Spaces way back in OS X 10.5 Leopard, and it was great… until they laid waste to it in Lion (and now, Mountain Lion). If you’re a Spaces lover, here’s how to bring back the spaces you know and love. More »

OS X Mountain Lion changes a lot of small things with the way the operating system works. It also locks down a lot of default behaviors that many people were used to in OS X Lion. Thankfully, a group over at Github has compiled a huge list of the command line tricks that still work in Mountain Lion. More »

OS X Mountain Lion was released this week and we’ve told you everything you need to know about Apple’s new operating system—except one thing: the secret features. With over 200 small changes, a few of them were bound to be awesome. Here are our top ten favorites. More »

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Posted by (author unknown) at MacOSXHints.com Mountain Lion introduced a new Open dialog to reflect iOS behavior. This dialog appears in TextEdit and Preview when you launch them, and you can’t disable it in the applications’ preferences.

The only way to disable the iCloud open dialog is to uncheck Documents & Data in the iCloud pane of System Preferences. This also disables the default iCloud destination in Save dialogs.

Perhaps you have a fast broadband connection at home or work and downloading multiple copies of OS X Mountain Lion from the Mac App Store to update a few computers is not an issue. But there are times when it’s more useful to have a means to install OS X from an external source. The following is a quick guide to help you create a USB installer for Mountain Lion, very similar in fact to the OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive Apple use to sell with previous versions of OS X.

Step 1: Extract the drive image

After purchasing and downloading the OS X Mountain Lion update and before actually updating your Mac, navigate to your Applications folder in the Finder and right click on the file “Install Mac OS X Mountain Lion.app” and select “Show Package Contents.” Look in the “Shared Support” folder located under the “Contents” folder of the “Install Mac OS X Mountain Lion.app,” and copy the file named “InstallESD.dmg” to your desktop. This file is a bootable disk image of OS X with the Mountain Lion Installer already installed. You will need this file in step three.

Step 2: Erase a USB drive

Take a thumb drive that has at least a 8GB capacity, and connect it to your Mac. Launch the Disk Utility application located in your Application’s Utilities folder. Once it is running you will see a list of the mounted drives connected to your Mac. Make sure there are no files you need on the drive, then select the USB drive, and click on the Erase tab to the right. Select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as the Format, set the Name to “Mac OS X Installer” and click on the Erase button.

Step 3: Restore the drive image

Now select the “Mac OS X Installer” you created in step two, and click on the Restore tab to the right. You want to set the Source as the ”Mac OS X Installer ESD,” which is located within the “InstallESD.dmg” file you copied in step one. Then set the Destination to be the “Mac OS X Installer” partition you created in step two. You can drag and drop the items in the list on the left of the Disk Utility, into their appropriate Source and Destination settings on the right. If you do not see the “InstallESD.dmg” file listed, use the Image button and locate it on your desktop. Click on the Restore button once everything is set correctly.

And that’s it. Once the process is complete, you will have your own backup installer for OS X Mountain Lion that you can use to install on your Mac, or restore it should something go terribly wrong. When you boot your Mac, be sure that the USB thumb drive is inserted, and hold down the option-key when the Mac starts up. You will be presented with a list of drives. Simply select the “Mac OS X Installer” you just created on your USB drive and you will be ready to install OS X Mountain Lion on your Mac.

Posted by (author unknown) at MacOSXHints.com The latest version of Parallels Desktop apparently has the sleazy feature of displaying ads, even though you’ve paid for the software. Simone Magnelli tweeted a defaults command that you can use to turn them off:

Posted by Cocoa Controls at Cocoa Controls PaperFold is a simple iOS control that allows hiding of views on the left and right side of the screen by dragging the middle view. The left view supports only 1 fold. The right view supports variable number of folds.

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